Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With Captain Overton, Farwell, Treadway, Braden, Davis and Nichols and a wealth of new material coming up from the 1919 squad, Yale has the best balanced and most formidable track team in a dozen years. In fact, the strength of the team is such that the Elis expect to defeat both Princeton and the University, and hope to win the intercollegiates. Overton and Farwell, the all-round stars of the team, are in record breaking form in the distance runs and the hurdles. In the last two big indoor meets, Overton has broken world's records in the mile...
...enumerating those who have given freely of their time and strength to the cause of the Allies in other than belligerent capacities, Dr. Cabot says: "Here we must reckon the American boys who have taken service with the American Ambulance in France, a service at once arduous, requiring skill, strength and devotion, and not free from danger. While they have taken service with the French and served loyally, they have not the less taken service in defence of the great American ideal of democracy." It is in this class that the Harvard Surgical units really belong. We may well agree...
...will be conducted, the aim of the track management being to secure a system in the sport as detailed and as comprehensive as that in football. This lack of system, it is said, is the fundamental weakness in the track team, as the presence of system is the fundamental strength in the football team. If a reorganization of track can be brought about on a systematic basis, the success of the University in this sport will be greatly increased. On this contention the committee appointed will base its investigation...
...Great Strength in Field Events...
...greatest strength of the team will undoubtedly lie in the field events. In the pole vault the team will have a brilliant performer in R. H. Harwood, who is easily the most promising man the University has had for some time in this event. Harwood, who will be the team's mainstay in this department, is the National Interscholastic champion in the pole vault, and has a record of over 12 feet in competition. Of the other pole vaulters F. D. Johnson has been showing considerable promise, and should be vaulting over 11 feet in this spring's meets...